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The Autoluxlamp, a kerosene lamp manufactured by Lux and used in railway stations around the world in the early 20th century. The company originates from a merger of two companies—Lux AB and Svenska Elektron AB, the former an established manufacturer and the latter a younger company founded by a former vacuum salesman who had also been an employee of the former firm. [7]
Slough Trading Estate: aerial view looking north-west. The Slough Trading Estate, founded in Slough in Buckinghamshire in 1920, was an early business park in Britain. According to the estate's owners and operators, Segro, [1] Slough Trading Estate consists of 486 acres (1.97 km 2) of commercial property in Slough and provides 7,500,000 sq ft (700,000 m 2) of accommodation to 500 businesses and ...
As with many commuter railroad systems of the late-20th Century in the United States, the stations exist along lines that were inherited from other railroads of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Stations on the east side of the Hudson River were originally part of either New York Central Railroad or New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad ...
The baggage car mistakenly identified as Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal car was stored near Track 61 before being moved to the Danbury Railway Museum. Track 61 is a storage track abutting a private railroad platform on the Metro-North Railroad in Manhattan, New York City.
This is a list of major infrastructure on the Northeast Corridor, a rail line running through the Northeastern United States.The list includes major interlockings, bridges, tunnels, and past and present stations, including the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Orange Line, the Washington Metro's Orange Line, and PATH stations on separate tracks but sharing the right-of-way.
Track near the terminal was electrified with 750 V DC third rail, compatible with the third rail system used within Penn Station by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The Northeast Corridor mainline from New Haven to Boston was electrified in 1999, completing the thwarted ambition of the former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
Leagrave is a former village and now a suburb of Luton, in the Luton district, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England, in the northwest of the town.The current council ward is roughly bounded by Vincent Road, Torquay Drive and High Street to the north, Roman Road and Stoneygate Road to the south, the M1 to the west, and Marsh Road and Leagrave Park to the east.
The station opened on October 21, 2001. [6] The US$400 million (equivalent to US$688 million in 2023) facility was funded through a surcharge on airline passengers. [1] Construction and operation of the extension of the AirTrain Newark system from the airport to the station is funded by ongoing fees charged to train passengers who use the station.